Engineered for heavy application workloads and designed with an endurance of up to 550TB per year, the 16TB Gold 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal Enterprise HDD from WD is well suited for use in enterprise-class data centers and storage systems. This 7200 rpm drive utilizes the SATA III 6 Gb/s interface and a 512MB cache for data transfer rates of up to 262 MB/s. Moreover, as a professional-grade drive, it has an MTBF rating of 2.5 million hours, 600,000 load/unload cycles, a non-recoverable error rate of < 1 in 1015, and an annualized failure rate of 0.35%. Also featured are vibration protection for improved performance in high vibration environments and HelioSeal technology for a reduced power draw.
Ideal For
- Hybrid cloud and colocation storage for small and medium businesses
- Data repatriation efforts requiring rapidly scalable local or distributed storage
- Demanding applications running high uptime workloads and more complex storage arrays such as RAID and JBODs
- Adding an additional storage layer to strengthen business continuity implementations
- Storing AI training data sets and hyperparameter tuning data
Built for Demanding Use Cases
Customize your business's storage mix to fit your specific needs with a storage capacity of 16TB that is engineered for demanding applications and read-write workloads of up to 550TB per year.
Enhanced Reliability
With a 2.5 million hour MTBF, WD Gold hard drives deliver enhanced levels of dependability and durability.
Robustness for Tough Environments
WD Gold drives use dual Rotational Vibration Safeguard dual sensors to anticipate and counteract disturbances, maintaining peak performance in high-vibration environments.
Flexibility and Peace of Mind
WD Gold has undergone extensive testing and validation in a variety of host bus adapters, servers, and enterprise storage solutions employing RAID and other data resiliency configurations.
HelioSeal Technology
HelioSeal technology delivers high capacities with a low power draw.
UPC: 718037872957